BCoE Strategic Plan

Our strategic planning started during May of 2005, when faculty members nominated by Department Heads and Center Directors were invited to participate in small roundtable sessions answering two key questions - 1. What do we need to do as a College of Engineering to achieve Top 50 Status? and 2. What are our major strengths and weaknesses that will play a critical role to becoming a Top 50 College of Engineering? I compiled a summary of these discussions which was subsequently used in the development of a draft plan.

The other key piece of planning information we have used concerns national rankings as reported in U.S. News and World Report, which is the de-facto standard used for ranking Engineering Colleges. As such, I have included a summary spreadsheet which shows the statistics on engineering colleges ranked #40 to #60, including the Bagley College of Engineering numbers. For reference, I have also included a copy of the current criteria used by U.S. News and World Report in doing their annual rankings.

Following these discussions with the faculty focus groups and examination of the data from U.S. News and World Report, the College of Engineering leadership team spent a day long retreat discussing the results of these roundtable discussions, comparing key elements of our current College of Engineering performance with selected Benchmarking Institutions, examining U.S. News and World Report rankings, and coming up with some broad goals and objectives. These have been refined during discussions with Department Heads and Center Directors.

The final phase of our strategic planning was to discuss these proposed goals and objectives with the broader engineering community, and we set up meetings with departments and research centers to discuss the plan.

To read the finished and comprehensive strategic plan for the college of engineering, please select the download icon below.



Strategic Planning for Diversity

Team Diversity, which consisted of a combination of faculty, staff, students, and administrators, held its first meeting in March of 2005. Members of the committee were nominated by the Dean’s senior staff. For over six months, the committee met to discuss the current status of diversity within the college, goals for the college, and to develop a plan that would serve as a blue print for the college in achieving these goals. It is our hope that this document will aid in the college becoming a nationally recognized leader in graduating and preparing women and scholars of color in the engineering profession. Three primary tenets emerged: (1) increasing diversity at all levels of administration, faculty, staff and student body (as it pertains to the number of women and people of color), (2) promoting an educational environment of inclusiveness, and (3) enhancing alumni relationships.

In developing this plan, the committee examined website information from current leading engineering colleges in this area and selected data from benchmark institutions. This information gave the committee baseline data from both the Bagley college and its peer institutions so that we could determine the current status of diversity within the college at all levels. Areas examined were faculty demographics, graduate student demographics, undergraduate demographics and diversification of departmental and college advisory boards. Included in this report are tables showing the data pertaining to each area examined. For a more detailed summary, we have included the report for your review. Select the download button below marked "Strategic Diversity Plan." We welcome any suggestions or comments. Please forward them to Dr. Tommy Stevenson, Assistant Dean of Diversity and Student Development at email.